By Victor Ahiuma-Young

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, weekend in Lagos said it had uncovered plot to scuttle the implementation of the N18.000 new minimum wage by private sector employers, even as its leaders today begin a three-day meeting in Abuja, to take a decisive decision to compel government to implement the new wage increase agreed to over six months back.

President of NLC, Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar, who revealled the said plot while speaking at the commissioning of the new secretariate of National Union of Civil Engineering, Construction, Furniture and Wood Workers, NUCECFWW, also alleged a renewed plans by the government to cripple organised labour in the country.

Comrade Omar said it was too late for private sector employers to back out from implementation of the new minimum wage, and warned that such attempt would incur the wrath of workers.